🚀 go-pugleaf

Eric Gisse wrote:
> On Feb 1, 9:08 am, nonsense <nonse...@unsettled.com> wrote:
> 
>>Eric Gisse wrote:
>>
>>>On Jan 31, 2:14 pm, "Max Keon" <maxk...@optusnet.com.au> wrote:
>>
>>deep snip
>>
>>
>>>>Richard Dawkins, author of "Root of all evil" made the claim that
>>>>militant faith is again on the march despite the progress of
>>>>science. Perhaps that wouldn't be the case if science was raised
>>>>above the sea of indoctrinated realities, to take its rightful
>>>>place in the world as the champion of truth.
>>>
>>>It only appears as "militant faith" to someone who is unwilling and
>>>unable to understand the many explanations, links, and books
>>>referenced to him.
>>
>>Mr. Gisse:
>>
>>You need to stop posting for a while. You're so immersed
>>in what you think you're trying to achieve that you've
>>forgotten to read what your correspondent is writing,
>>or even worse, ignoring it altogether. Hint: seeing
>>everything through a haze of red is a *bad thing*.
>>
>>Let's talk about Dawkins for just a moment.
>>
>>Here's the opening paragraph to the Wikipedia article
>>about him:
>>
>>"Clinton Richard Dawkins (born March 26, 1941) is a
>>British ethologist, evolutionary biologist and popular
>>science writer who holds the Charles Simonyi Chair for
>>the Public Understanding of Science at the University
>>of Oxford.[1]"
>>
>>I hope there's no need to beat up on you any more
>>for this sort of thing.
> 
> 
> I'm reasonably sure that Dawkins was talking about creationists, who
> tend to make the same arguments about evolution that folks on here use
> against modern physics. The "militant faith" likely refers to those
> same people - but since there is absolutely no context, I can't be
> sure.
> 
> I don't even see why you felt you had to reply.

Figgers. You're still seeing red.

No matter what Keon's science is or isn't, read the
paragraph he wrote. You might not see yourself in it,
but I sure do, and I'm not arguing the science at all,
but the precise aspects he's hit on.

Go out of doors. Spend the weekend interfacing with
friendly human beings. One view of the universe is all
numbers. You need to spend time looking at things
directly for a bit. The sun really doesn't rise or set
around how right you are and how wrong he is on any
particular issue.

And when you've done some R&R come back and explain
to me how time has behaved identically everywhere
since the first few moments after the initiation
of the big bang.

But please go take the cure first.

Thanks.